CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2007 Set 02

CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2007 (2). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions.Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations. 

1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :

(a) We have seen how, since the liberation of human thought in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a comparatively few curious and intelligent men, chiefly in Western Europe, have produced a vision of the world and a body of science that is now on the material side, revolutionising life.

    (i) When did the liberation of human thought take place in Europe ? 

    (ii) Who brought about this liberation ? 

    (iii) What has been the result of that vision on human life ? 

OR

The freedom of the press is one of the highly guarded and valued privileges of democracy. There are laws to protect the privacy and rights of the individual, and the security of the country but no man is too important, no office too high to escape comment. A well informed press carrying all degrees of opinion is a vital part of our heritage.

    (i) What is a highly valued privilege of democracy ? 

    (ii) What are the laws meant for ? 

    (iii) What is a vital part of our heritage ?  

(b) Discriminating critics, however, were not wanting. Her work, therefore, became, in Keats’ fine phrase, “great art unto a little clan”. Yet there were moments when she was little dismayed; but loyalties to tradition, pluck and abnegation made endurance possible. Faced with a lack of appreciation she was amongst those talented souls whose merits had also been ignored.

    (i) How did a little clan of critics rate Amrita Sher-Gil’s painting ? 

    (ii) What helped Amrita Sher-Gil overcome the adverse criticism ? 

    (iii) How does the author describe her talent ? 

OR

In any case, no literature teacher is going to belabour his students with incomprehensibilities for long. The strain — on the teacher, I mean — is too great. It seems to me that, whatever the country and whatever the national approach to literature, the survey courses and the old-style formal lecturing on the philosophy of Wordsworth or on the Epic, if they have to be done, can best be done by native teachers in the language of the country.

    (i) What can a literature teacher not do for long ? 

    (ii) Why can’t he do it ? 

    (iii) Which topics can best be taught by native teachers in their own language ? 

2. Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :

    (a) Though water pollution is unseen and invisible, its effect is visible. Elucidate. 

    (b) “The giving of presents would gloriously increase the happiness of the world.”Elaborate.

3. Answer the following questions in about 60 words each :

    (a) How do ants find their way home ?

    (b) “Sense of proportion is a sign of wisdom.” How ? 

4. Answer the following question in about 150 words :How did the Captain’s greed lead to his death ? 

5. Answer the following questions in about 60 words each :

    (a) Describe the role played by Madan in ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’.

    (b) Describe the early life of the Master as shown in ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’.

6.Answer the following question in about 150 words:What role do the candlesticks play in the lives of the Bishop and the Convict ?

7. Answer the following questions in about 60 words each :

    (a) What, according to you, is the message of the play, 'Mother’s Day' ? 

    (b) Why does the Sergeant (The Rising of the Moon) want to arrest the escaped prisoner ? 

8. (a) Do as directed : 

    (i) Mohan is an architect. He has won international praise. (Rewrite by using ‘relative clause’)

    (ii) Safety barriers are used to control traffic. (Identify ‘head’ and ‘modifier’)

    (iii) I am a big idiot. (Rewrite with exclamatory clause)

    (iv) He is very selfish ... ? (Add question tag)

    (v) He won the first prize. (Change into passive clause)

(b) Do as directed : 

    (i)Break the following words into separate syllables by putting a dot or slash(. /)after each syllable:gaiety,identical, interface, hypocritical

    (ii) Mark the ‘stress’ on the following words : submerge, imbue, ransack, confiscate

    (iii) What is the rising tone ? 

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